i hope they think big. i hope they swing for the fences and get a result and bring it back to us and let us consider it and hopefully -- hopefully enact it and get on to other things. we -- the debt is a major long-term problem, not just for our grandchildren but for us today. we have a bigger issue facing us, and that is the fact that we have had persistent unemployment in an economy that's not growing, and that's hurting too many people. so the sooner we swing for the fences and get a result and get our debt under control and deal with it in a bipartisan way, the better for the country and the quicker we will be able to get on to the larger question of jobs. of course, economists have made it clear to us that getting the debt under control has a lot to do with jobs, that when our total debt is as high as it is today, nearly 100% of our gross domestic product, that that probably costs us a million jobs a year. we can't solve all that in one day or one month, but we can take a big step in the right directio